... "Playing gooseberry" is sort of that. It's more like being the third person on a date; inviting yourself to being "three's a crowd". source: my English...
... Never heard of it, Ron... (ha). It hasn't been around for over 60 years now. It was a hut in the Tatras named after General Jan Votruba who commanded...
Any clue as to how "gooseberry" got into this saying? Helen ... explain ... "Playing gooseberry" is sort of that. It's more like being the third person on a...
Martin, Thanks for the short version of the hut and better detailed version of the border dispute! I scanned the three photos so will post those, and have the...
The three photos are loaded at the Photos part of the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slovak-World site under "Votruba Hut". I will take the photos down in a...
... JOE YOU GAVE A COPY TO ME - I RAN ACROSS IT THE OTHER DAY WHILE WORKING ON THE SPRING SLOVAKIA HELENE __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
... What a difference about 15 degrees in latitude (49 vs 35) makes. I've been living at 1675 meters for 43 years and we don't have mountain brigades and...
"Chata" is a hut, while "chyz~a" is a cottage. My parents never referred to their home in the village as anything other than "nas~a chyz~a". Helen ... What a...
The Oxford English Dictionary gives gooseberry a couple of meanings: a chaperone, a pseudonym for the devil or an authoritarian figure, and an explanation for...
Thanks for going to all this trouble Joe. Now it makes sense. Helen ... The Oxford English Dictionary gives gooseberry a couple of meanings: a chaperone, a...
The bushes do have thorns, I think. Does the slovak word have any other meanings...what's the etymology? Zuzka [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Mar 2, 2005 2:53 pm
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Thank you, Ron, for the information and for the great photos. It's interesting that the German text translates the Predne Kopske sedlo in the Slovak text you...
"C~o sa babe (za)chcelo, to sa babe (pri)snilo" It's wishful thinking The wish is father to/of the thought "hrat' sa na slepu babu" play blind man's buff put...
Not only do the bushes have thorns - the berries have thorns! When you eat gooseberries, you have to carefully break all of the thorns down with your teeth...
LHBrigham
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Mar 2, 2005 4:23 pm
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Both Hungarian and Slovak use the same word, "egres" and "egres~". Who borrowed it from whom? I would think that since it's a horticultural item (that a...
I've found differing opinions on the etymology of gooseberry, but one that makes sense to me is to derive it from gorse-berry, with gorse referring to another...
... Thanks Helen. That was the term my parents also used. For some reason I got the impression it was a synonym for hut and "chata" was a cottage. I wasn't...
... I agree, Joe, and it goes even farther. Gooseberries are not ancient Slovak, or even European fruit. The names of such plants aren't old, old Slovak,...
... was also used to mean "a room." Chata is more recent, from the German Hu"tte. It only means a mountain chalet/hut, or a summer cottage/house today.< But...
... It is (was) quite common all over, RU, and in other Slavic languages, too. But it has an old-fashioned ring to it today, so that's why a shorter...
So does that mean that gooseberries originally came from Iberia? This also brought to mind the Slovak word "cibul'a" (onion), which resembles the Spanish word...
... Whatever baba (Lola) wants, baba (Lola) gets. (?) ... Playing blind baba. ... Noun 1. nosey-parker - a person who meddles in the affairs of others ...
I cannot believe those photos could ever be confused with a 'hut' -- I'd say they look like Swiss skiing chalets -- or lodges -- but 'hut' -- I just don't get ...
... It's more likely that gooseberries reached Vienna _via_ Spain/Spanish (e.g., the Habsburgs ruled Spain ca. 1500-1700, as well as much of Central Europe)....
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